Sentence examples for capital defending from inspiring English sources

A month before Clegg pledged in April to scrap the "dead weight of debt", a secret team of key Lib Dems made clear that, in the event of a hung parliament, the party would not waste political capital defending its manifesto pledge to abolish university tuition fees within six years.

It has turned Estonians who reject everything about the Soviet era against Estonians with a lingering respect for the Red Army's bravery.But it is hard to argue that Estonia needs this argument right now, and even harder to argue that Estonia should be expending shamefully scarce diplomatic capital defending its behaviour abroad.

The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, has expended considerable political capital defending the right of her country's auto makers to produce gas-guzzling luxury cars with appalling emissions because she is worried about German jobs - yes, I know: a job won't help when the apocalypse comes.

Until this week, New Haven's mayor, John DeStefano, had spent a significant chunk of political capital defending the plan to build a "super-regional" shopping center just west of downtown on Long Island Sound, a project that he said would breathe some economic life back into a city whose downtown has been dormant for years.

And it's what they're least willing to spend political capital defending.So we saw George W. Bush hold the line on social issues, but completely sell out on federal spending, regulation, and general growth of government.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City spent political capital defending the tactic in 2009.

The Foreign Office minister Chris Bryant, speaking in the Spanish capital, defended the rescue operation.

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Several months after Mark's death, she joined her first capital case, defending Susan Smith.

An official praised the youth of the capital for "defending their honour" against the rioters' acts of sabotage.The huge protest in Algiers had drawn hundreds of thousands of Kabyles to the capital.

While the campaign is responding to an attack, this conversation about Mr. Romney's record as a businessman is one the campaign is willing to have; especially in a socially conservative state like South Carolina, they probably much prefer discussing his record at Bain Capital to defending against attacks on his conservative credentials.